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HPCWire: Zetaflops will happen for HFT says HPC Analyst hpcwire.com While Thomas Sterling’s interview about the impossibility of reaching zettaflops made a lot of sense, the history of making negative predictions about technology is often an embarrassing one. Here are three examples: "I think...   -- Those papers are too generic ; I would like to see mathematical logic to explain why it is possible or not ;; for exemple what is the limit of optics? 1fJ/bit? It is clear there is a physical limit to computation, this is very sad, but we are still very far from it, there are plenty potential solutions to extend the Moore Law Is it an econimical limit? power limit? A communication limit? Complexity limit? For what problems? a machine to treat 1 problem or thousands/millions in parallel? There is a clear potential for sciences to use a reasonably cheap zettaflop machine It can be 10B$ "this is very cheap" regarding our deficits, it can be 1GW, just 1 nuclear plant ; it all depend what fundamental problems this machine can solve for humanity that we cannot be solved without it I think the true limit is the ecomical balance between cost/benefits , we will reach that limit before the true physical limits Meanwhile we should not neglect those fundamental limits that are on our radar, I feel that in future we will be more limited by data storing and transport capability than compute capability mainly because the data will come from of trillions of sensors dispersed on our planet  

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